pi-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pi"

Choctaw

Etymology

Cognate with Chickasaw pi-

Prefix

pi-

1. verb/adjective prefix for the first-person paucal

   we (few), us (few), to us (few), for us (few)

2. possessive II prefix for the first-person paucal

   our (we few's)

Etymology 2

From pi- +‎ i- (“he, she, it; him, her, it; his, her, its”)

Prefix

pi- (before vowels pim-)

1. verb/adjective prefix for the first-person paucal

   we (few), us (few), to us (few), for us (few)

2. possessive III prefix for the first-person paucal

   our (we few's)

Inflection

Choctaw Person Markers

			class I			class II		class III		class N		imperative
			+s	+C	+V	+C/i	+a/o	+C	+V	+C	+V	+C	+V
first-person	singular	initial	-li			sa-	si-	a̱-	am-	ak-		n/a
		medial						-sa-	-sam-
	paucal		ī-		il-	pi-		pi̱-	pim-	kī-	kil-
	plural					hapi-		hapi̱-	hapim-
second-person	singular		is-	ish-		chi-		chi̱-	chim-	chik-		∅
	plural		has-	hash-		hachi-		hachi̱-	hachim-	hachik-		ho-	oh-
third-person			∅			∅		i̱-	im-	ik-

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Curripaco

Prefix

pi-

1. second person singular agent marker

References

• Swintha Danielsen, Tania Granadillo, Agreement in two Arawak languages, in The Typology of Semantic Alignment (edited by Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann) (2008, →ISBN, page 398

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Taos

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /pi/

Prefix

pi-

1. (transitive) first-person singular subject + third-person inverse number object

Prefix

pi-

1. (formative) inverse number object prefix (on verbs with plural subjects) (compare the pę- allomorph)

Alternative forms

• pę-

Derived terms

• ipi- (ąpęn-)
• mąpi- (mąpęn-)

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Tocharian B

Verb

pi-

1. to sing